What have the artists said about the song?

Ari said she wanted to have a song like her favorite song from my Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes CD, “Getting Out”…something really tough about the music business and how hard it was to be a woman trying to maintain her own voice, trying to push her boundaries, trying to stand up against the astonishing wall of corporate resistance she faced on a regular basis, not to mention the crazy demands and frustrations of celebrity culture. She wanted it to sound “totally JRB” and so she walked me over to the out-of-tune piano in the living room and said “Just do JRB things!” Whereupon she climbed on top of the piano and started singing along while I played. She had a melodic idea for the chorus, I filled it out; I had a melodic idea for the verse, she stretched it and made it swing.

Who's the Jason mentioned in the title?

The song was written by Jason Robert Brown, who cast young Ariana in his Broadway show “13 The Musical.” She asked him about writing a song for her album and this is what they came up with. Ariana wanted it to be named “Jason’s song” after him.

Who wrote the lyrics?

I said I would write a draft of the lyric just to get her started and then she could change it to whatever she wanted. (Ultimately, she changed about seven words, and her fixes really did sound better coming out of her than my originals would have. She has a perfect sense of what fits her.)